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X-Files 3 Possible
According to Fox Chairman Tom Rothman,X-Files 3 may be made.Here's the excerpt from a recent (10/2008) interview with IESB.net:
"IESB: X-Files, truthfully, I'm a huge X-Files fan, I was a bit disappointed with the new film. It didn't feel like an X-Files movie, but I hope to god, I know there's an idea that Chris [Carter] had about the 2012 mythology of the X-Files, the alien colonization, any chance we'll see X-Files 3?
TR: It's really up to Chris, David [Duchovny] and Gillian [Anderson].
IESB: The second one wasn't an expensive film.
TR: No, but it wasn't a matter of the money, that was the film that Chris wanted to do. He was determined to do a stand alone film, a film that wasn't dependent upon the mythology. His interest in making the movie, was in the characters and in their relationship, not the mythology."
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Friday, September 5, 2008
'X-Files' creator Chris Carter hospitalized for exhaustion,X-Files:I Want to Believe Box Office Update
Chris Carter, writer, producer, and director of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, was hospitalized on Tuesday due to "physical exhaustion and an acute sleeping disorder," a source close to Carter (pictured, right, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) tells EW.com. The source says the hospitalization stems from Carter "working on multiple films back to back over a two year period" -- the recently released X-Files sequel and Fencewalker, a covert project he is rumored to have begun shooting earlier this year. He is expected to recover quickly.
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X-Files:I Want to Believe Gross Revenue (Budget:$30 million)
Domestic:
$20,850,997
Foreign:
$40,700,000
Worldwide:
$61,550,997
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
X-Files:I Want To Believe Review UPDATED
Having watched all nine seasons of X-Files the last one and a half year,i have to say that it's one of my favourite tv series.X-Files ended in 2002,although the plan was to continue the show with Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish as the leads or other actors/actresses in possible future seasons.The sequel to the 1998 movie X-Files:Fight the Future,was supposed to be released shortly after the end of the series,but due to legal matters,it was put on hold.Last year,the project was greenlit,with a screenplay that was ready since 2003(for obvious reasons there were changes to the original screeplay)and with a 35 million $ budget.The title of the sequel:X-Files:I Want to Believe.
This movie is a stand-alone story and not a part of the X-Files mythology.The events take place in real time.Mulder is in hiding and Scully works now in a hospital.The dissappearance of a FBI agent is the cause for the return in the field.We are introduced to two FBI agents,a believer and a skeptic.We are also introduced to Father Joe,a former priest and a convicted pedophile,who claims to have psychic abilities.
In the movie,we see the development of the relationship between Scully and Mulder.Mulder,although hesitant at first,he is willing to return.Scully is reluctant,has reservations,does not to return,she has put the past behind.She has now a responsibility as a doctor and has deal with other matters and she eventually faces a serious dilemma.As the story progresses,the relationship is put to the test,but it is proven how strong it is.
There are several references to the series,which fans will appreciate.And a familiar character also appears.As far as the the plot is concerned,while it's not probably the best X-File,it's engaging and there are nice and interesting elements.The approach here is low-key and not action,effects-driven.The tone is dark but there are funny moments,which mostly come from Mulder.
The chemistry between David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson is still there and their perfomances are good.Amanda Peet and XZibit are adequate and Billy Connolly is pretty good.
The problem with this movie is expectations and lack of interest.Loyal fans,after all these years of waiting,expect a decent movie,dissappointed fans from the last seasons
have low expectations or they don't care and the interest of casual viewers is not high.In my opinion,while the movie at times loses its pace and certainly has other flaws,it's a decent movie,that's worth watching.The fanbase is still strong but is that enough for XF:IWTB to be successful?The answer will be given shortly.Let's hope that X-Files:I Want to Believe is successful enough,so as another movie will be produced,which is planned to be mythology-related and which will give the conclusion to the events set up by the series.
Review written on July 25.
UPDATE (July 30):Sadly,XFIWB grossed only 10 million $ last weekend in the U.S,which is about half of the gross analysts projected (19 million $).
Let's examine some of the reasons for the low opening:
-Lack of interest,decline in popularity:Although the series is still popular (DVD sales and other figures prove it),let's face it,it's not as popular as it was in its prime (when the first movie was released) or even when it ended in 2002.The lack of interest from fans or casual viewers can also be attributed to the wrong marketing of the movie.
-Marketing/Promotion:Considering the fact that for the promotion of Fight the Future Fox spent almost as much money as the budget of the movie(66 million $ budget,60 million $ promotion cost,189 million $ worlwide gross,Fox received 103 million $ (55 %)),it's logical that the studio did not want spent so much money for the promotion of the sequel.However,that does not mean that the promotion should be so quiet.Yes,there were trailers,interviews,tv spots etc.But many people,even fans of series,were not aware of the release of the movie.As it is proven by recent movies,the marketing does not have to be costly but smart and targeted.
-Release date:Releasing XFIWB the second week of release of The Dark Knight was certainly a wrong choice.Add to that,the fact that other movies have the same target audience.
X-Files:I Want To Believe,considering it's low budget (35 million $),will be profitable ( add worldwide box-office and DVD revenue).However,it seems that the odds for a third movie are not much.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Still Out There (in Movie Theaters)
By Mark Harris,NY Times.com
July 13,2008
CHRIS CARTER, the creator of “The X-Files,” has a message for anyone who, some time during the show’s nine-season run, threw up his hands trying to figure out exactly what was going on with the extraterrestrial abductions, the black-oil aliens, the metal sinus implants, the Syndicate, the Cigarette Smoking Man, Mulder’s sister, Scully’s baby, Mulder’s father, Scully’s cancer, the colonists, the Lone Gunmen, Deep Throat and all the rest of the show’s staggeringly complex and often murky mythology:
You can come back now.
Of course there are those who never left, who have kept “The X-Files” alive since the series finale five years ago via online episode guides, concordances and no small amount of erotic fan fiction. And Mr. Carter will be delighted if they show up at precisely 12:01 a.m. on July 25, the opening day of “The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” his big-screen attempt to see whether there’s still an audience out there for the paranormal probings of the F.B.I. agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). But Mr. Carter, and 20th Century Fox, are especially interested in casual viewers who may stay away out of fear they have 202 hours of homework to do first.
There’s no need. “I Want to Believe” is, in “X-Files” argot, a stand-alone: a self-contained story reminiscent of several beloved early episodes in which Mulder and Scully were dispatched to a remote (but always vaguely Canadian looking) location to confront an undefined, menacing presence. Mr. Carter promises not only scares but also a beginning, middle and end, none of them overly entangled in back story. Everyone, including newcomers, is invited to jump aboard.
At least that’s the hope. The first “X-Files” movie, released 10 summers ago, was so elaborately knitted into the show’s story lines that it had to open precisely between the end of Season 5 and the start of Season 6. The film grossed $84 million, impressing many who doubted that people would pay for a supersized episode of a series they were used to seeing for nothing.A decade later, in the wake of the big-screen successes of “The Simpsons” and “Sex and the City,” the TV-to-movie genre has considerably more credibility. But the success of “I Want to Believe” is far from assured.
Five years out of sight is a long time even for a popular franchise, and when Fox gave the go-ahead to Mr. Carter and his co-writer and co-producer, Frank Spotnitz, the green light came with a low budget of $30 million, a strong expression of preference for a user-friendly PG-13 rating and a now-or-never timetable predicated on finishing the script before the writers’ strike last winter.
The mere existence of a new “X-Files” movie represents something of a triumph of patience and persistence. “These things take a while,” said Tom Rothman, co-chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment. “The show is very personal to the creative team, and the stars, literally and figuratively, had to line up.”
That was by no means a certainty when the series left the air. Mr. Duchovny had quit a year earlier, eager for more family time and other work, and perhaps weary of the show’s hothouse atmosphere. “There were relationship repairs to be made, certainly, between David and me,” Mr. Carter said of the later years of the run.
Ms. Anderson stayed until the end, but by then, she said, “I wasn’t even sure when I would be interested in being on a film set again, period.” She added: “It can get so all-consuming and incestuous. I wanted to escape.”
Mr. Duchovny, 47, went on to make several movies and now stars in the Showtime comedy series “Californication.” Ms. Anderson, 39, moved to London, where she established herself as an actress onstage, in British television (“Bleak House”) and in film (“The Last King of Scotland”). She is now the host of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS.
Mr. Carter and Mr. Spotnitz already had an idea for a new “X-Files” movie when the series ended, but it was shelved when an argument with Fox over syndication profits led Mr. Carter to file a lawsuit in 2006. “To resolve it took me longer than I had anticipated,” he said of the protracted dispute, which was amicably settled. “But the day my representatives were calling me saying it’s over, Fox was on the other line saying, ‘Do you want to make this movie?’ ”
The long delay necessitated a fresh approach, not to the plot but to the characters. “We had tried very hard to think of something we had not done before,” Mr. Spotnitz said, “and we came up with an ‘X-File’ that was very creepy and disturbing. But that was in 2003. By 2007 we realized that the Mulder-and-Scully aspect of the story had to be different because of the passage of time. The movie” — which acknowledges that several years have elapsed — “is more about them and their relationship than anything we would have done in the series. We never would have spent that kind of capital in an episode.”
Both actors were enthusiastic about the prospect of an installment that did not rely on the series’s labyrinthine plotlines. “I never was able to follow the story,” Ms. Anderson said, laughing. “Some people who spent a lot of time hashing it out might have been able to make sense out of everything, but I got lost.”
Mr. Duchovny said he welcomed the screenplay as a chance for “the characters to have a clean slate on which to create themselves again.”
“And the mythology still exists,” he added. “Even if we don’t bring it to bear in a specific movie, viewers who were into all that will understand some moments and reactions a little better.”
As production neared, Mr. Carter wondered if a PG-13 would render the movie too tame. “I didn’t want to be hemmed in,” he said. “I remember saying to Tom Rothman: ‘Look, we’re in a new world now, we’ve got the “Saw” movies, the “Hostel” movies. I want to do something that scares people in a big-screen way.’ He was very thoughtful about the evolution of that particular appetite. And in fact that period of horror seemed to run its course with audiences in a very short time.”
“I Want to Believe” was shot in Vancouver, the series’s home for its first five years, and a place where Mr. Carter could stretch his budget even with a weak American dollar. The return to Canada was not just a homecoming, he said, but also a plot necessity. The story, which includes roles for Amanda Peet and the rapper and actor Xzibit as F.B.I. agents, and the Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly as a spooky maybe-psychic, required a location with a metropolitan area, a nearby forest and a vast amount of snow.
Under Mr. Carter’s direction, the shoot may have felt like a family reunion, but that’s not to say everyone was instantly at home. “I walked in thinking, it’s going to be like riding a bicycle,” Ms. Anderson said. “It wasn’t.” It was like riding a unicycle, she said, modifying unicycle with an emphatic and unprintable adjective that fans have never heard Scully utter. “I’d been trying so hard to stretch myself in other roles, and to catch myself when I did anything that remotely resembles Scully, that when I was put back in the ring with her, my brain started misfiring.”
The challenges for Mr. Duchovny were more physical. “It’s been a while since I worked on those night shoots,” he said. “I’d forgotten how bodily taxing it can be standing in the cold or trying to chase somebody down at 4 in the morning.”
Both actors say they’re up for more sequels if the demand is there, and so are Mr. Carter and Mr. Spotnitz. In April, when the two men took the stage at Comic Con in New York to unveil a brief trailer, a crowd of more than 2,000 greeted them like slightly aging rock stars. A fair share of those in attendance were old enough to be the parents of the teenagers milling around the graphic-novel and action-figure displays outside, and many had clearly been keeping the faith.
Mr. Carter and Mr. Spotnitz, both practiced in the art of revealing little, fielded questions gamely if obliquely, including a number of inquiries about whether Scully and Mulder might ever become romantically involved. It is the Question That Will Not Die, and it perplexes Mr. Carter, who said, “I never wanted to domesticate the show, to make it simply about Mulder and Scully rather than about the quest they share.”
Mr. Duchovny, when told of the questions, said: “I’m not surprised people are still curious. It’s really the kind of weird marriage they have, that perfect and imperfect relationship, that gives life to the whole enterprise.”
Ms. Anderson used to find the whole idea ridiculous. “There was always part of me that thought, ‘What’s so special about these two, and will everybody not shut up about it?’ ” she said. “And then, while we were doing this movie, somebody sent me a link to a YouTube montage that a fan had put together of Mulder and Scully. Clips of our growing intimacy through the series. One, it was really moving, and two, I couldn’t believe how many times we held hands and actually kissed. And I was left with my very first understanding of what the fans were on about. I finally kind of got it.
“Because the clips show that there may be room for more — I’m putting my foot in my mouth,” she said, quickly changing the subject. “But if we had given them what they said they wanted years ago, it would have ruined the series.”
As the Comic Con session continued, with audience members still aching for plot details, the earnest Mr. Spotnitz and the elliptical Mr. Carter were asked what they wanted moviegoers to take away from “I Want to Believe.”
“Hope,” said Mr. Spotnitz.
All eyes turned to Mr. Carter. “The trash under your seats,” he said.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
X-Files Retro:The Truth (Series Finale)
By JULIE SALAMON,NY Times.com
May 22,2002
The television series that turned paranoid distrust of the government into a pop phenomenon ended just when paranoia might seem like a smart response to current events. But with a platitudinous final episode that was more of a tease than a conclusion, ''The X-Files'' wrapped up looking more dutiful than relevant, an acknowledgment that the show's lucrative future lies in its past.
The first commercial break drove the point home: ''The series is ended, but the conspiracy will continue forever on DVD. Own Season 5 today.'' The busy Internet chat rooms after Sunday night's two-hour finale were full of lamentations for the vigor and excitement of Seasons 1 through 6, when the show's paranormal, conspiracy-theory creepiness was fresh and fun. (Season 9 just ended.)
The show's executive producer, Chris Carter, wasted little original thinking on a final episode meant to invoke instant nostalgia in the hope of reaping future rewards. (In more reruns, perhaps another movie, the memorabilia market for ''X-Files'' lunchboxes and T-shirts.) Borrowing blatantly from the ''Seinfeld'' finale, Mr. Carter used the mechanism of a trial to remind viewers of the series's highlights in the guise of revelation.
The F.B.I. agent and U.F.O.-chasing hero Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is captured while infiltrating the government sanctuary holding the biggest secret of all. The F.B.I. and the military join forces in a kangaroo court designed to find Mulder guilty.
In case anyone has forgotten, a military man explains Mulder's biggest crime: ''He's a crusader and a lot of people do not like crusaders.'' Fans, however, loved Mulder (and Mr. Duchovny, who left the show a year ago). So Mr. Carter brought him back to center stage one last time, to kiss Agent Scully (Gillian Anderson) and to prove beyond doubt that Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish were doomed to remain the second team.
It turned out that the episode was called ''The Truth'' not so much for its mostly unsurprising revelations, but for its endless speechifying about the subject. ''The truth will come to you as it's come to me,'' says Mulder solemnly, ''faster than the speed of light.''
In the final episode, however, truth emerged slowly and often ponderously, through court testimony geared toward recollection of the series's weird amalgamation of alien and family mythology. It's confirmed that Mulder's sister, Samantha, was abducted by aliens and was the subject of terrible experiments; that Mulder was the father of Scully's baby, William (given up for adoption); and that aliens are indeed going to take over Earth. (There's a date: Dec. 22, 2012.) Old demons like the Smoking Man (William Davis) appeared to die yet again.
Mr. Carter stirred himself to inject some humor into the somber proceedings. When Scully visits Mulder in jail, he says, ''I thought I smelled you coming, Clarice,'' and follows the Hannibal Lecter joke with a full kiss on the mouth (a rare exhibition of physical intimacy). During Mulder's trial, as John Doggett (Mr. Patrick) testifies about the supernatural things he's seen, the prosecutor asks, ''What does this science fiction have to do with anything?''
Until the end, the series maintained its mesmerizing visual gloominess, cleverly punctuated with suggestive plays of color and light. What does it mean -- if anything -- that Mulder's orange prison uniform perfectly matches Scully's hair?
It also retained its conspiracy-theory heart that has appealed so greatly to viewers. After Mulder is captured, his military jailors torment him with beatings and doublespeak. ''You are a guilty man,'' screams a soldier. ''You entered a government facility in search of nonexistent information.''
Above all, Mr. Carter wanted to reconnect the series to Mulder and Scully. In the final confrontation in the New Mexican desert, when Doggett (Mr. Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Ms. Gish) try to save them, Mulder waves the agents away. As he and Scully jump into their own S.U.V. and drive off, the members of second team look sad, as if realizing that they never quite cut it.
As the final episode ends, Scully and Mulder are left together, alone against the world, in a burst of romance mixed with apocalyptic certainty and unconvincing religious inspiration. They hold hands and contemplate a dismal future of conquering aliens. They also talk of a greater power that may save them. Mulder touches the cross Scully wears around her neck, caresses her lips and then utters the series' final words: ''Maybe there's hope.'' At the very least, there's syndication -- and those lunchboxes.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 9
Season 9
Episode 3 (185) "Dæmonicus" (Written & Directed by by Frank Spotnitz)
With Scully reassigned to the Quantico Training Academy, Doggett and Reyes investigate their first X-File together - a series of satanic ritual murders - which sees their different investigative techniques working together.
Episode 7 (189) "John Doe" (Written by Vince Gilligan, Directed by Michelle Maxwell MacLaren)
With no knowledge of his identity or his past, Doggett is found wandering a dusty Mexican town. While he struggles to piece together his memory, he finds himself embroiled in a smuggling plot, and - across the border - Scully and Reyes attempt to find him.
Episode 17 (199) "Release" (Written by John Shiban & David Amann, Directed by Kim Manners)
When one of Scully’s students displays an inordinate ability to profile serial killers, his insights reopen the murder case of Doggett’s son.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 8
Season 8
Episode 4 (165) "Roadrunners" (Written by Vince Gilligan, Directed by Rod Hardy)
Working alone, Scully pursues a cult that worship a slug-like organism; but in her efforts to save an injured stranger, she discovers she’s in over her head.
Episode 6 (167) "Redrum" (Written by Steven Maeda & Daniel Arkin, Directed by Peter Markle)
After his wife is murdered, a lawyer friend of Doggett's tries to clear his name of the crime but the days regress backwards.
Episode 18 (179) "Vienen" (Written by Steven Maeda, Directed by Rod Hardy)
Mulder and Doggett are asked to investigate several deaths aboard an oil rig, but Mulder is convinced the rig is carrying an alien black oil; meanwhile a heavily pregnant Scully attempts to protect Mulder in absentia.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 7
Two weeks are left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments,i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes,from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips,except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
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Season 7
Episode 5 (144) "Rush" (Written by David Amann, Directed by Robert Lieberman)
When a school student becomes the prime suspect in the bizarre murder of a police officer, Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate. They discover that the boy and a couple of friends have been playing with the ability to accelerate their movements to a frequency the human eye can’t perceive.
Episode 7 (146) "Orison" (Written by Chip Johannessen, Directed by Rob Bowman)
Reverend Orison releases Donnie Pfaster, Scully’s former kidnapper ("Irresistible" Season 2), from jail in the hopes of passing judgement on him. What he discovers instead is that he has released pure evil, and it’s headed for Scully....
Episode 17 (156) "All Things" (Written & Directed by Gillian Anderson)
While Mulder is away in England, Scully is led by coincidences, chance, fate and possibly a higher power to a married man whom she had an affair with during medical school, and a look at the life she didn’t choose, forcing her to make choices about her future.
Episode 18 (157) 'Brand X" (Written by Steven Maeda & Greg Walker, Directed by Kim Manners)
While protecting a man due to testify against the Morley cigarette company, Skinner is horrified when the witness dies mysteriously. What the agents soon discover is that a new brand of cigarette has a dangerous secret...
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 6
Less than three weeks are left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments,i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes,from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips,except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
Season 6
Episode 7 (124) "Terms of Endearment" (Written by David Amann, Directed by Rob Bowman)
When a mother is accused of killing her unborn child, Mulder and Scully discover that the father has his own secrets, and he’s not the only one.
Episode 10 (127) "Tithonus" (Written by Vince Gilligan, Directed by Michael Watkins)
Scully learns that she, but not Mulder, is being given a chance to prove her worth at the FBI, and - paired with a new partner - she investigates a crime scene photographer with an uncanny knack for arriving just in time to see his victims final moments. What she does not expect is for Death to play a role himself.
Episodes 11-12 (128-129)
"Two Fathers" (Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz, Directed by Kim Manners)
When Cassandra Spender is returned, Mulder, Scully and Agent Spender find themselves facing the exposure of the conspiracy involving extraterrestrials; while the worried Syndicate take evasive measures.
"One Son" (Written by Chris Carter & Frank Spotnitz, Directed by Rob Bowman)
While Cassandra reveals the truth about the alien conspiracy to Mulder, her ex-husband - the Cigarette Smoking Man - does the same to Agent Spender in an effort to convince him to work with the conspiracy. But even as Mulder is deceived by Agent Fowley, Scully stays true to the investigation, and the two find a surprise ally. Meanwhile, the Syndicate reach the climax of their plans, only to find that the end is not as they expected.
Episode 14 (131) "Monday" (Written by Vince Gilligan & John Shiban, Directed by Kim Manners)
The world is trapped in a time loop, and only one woman seems to know. A bank robbery is committed over and over again until Mulder and Scully can make it go right.
Episode 18 (135) "Milagro" (Written by Chris Carter, Story by John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz, Directed by Kim Manners)
A series of murders takes place where the heart has been removed from the victims. A writer that lives next door to Mulder is writing a novel about the murders before they actually happen. Scully finds herself confused and drawn to the writer, who has a romantic interest in her.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 5
Less than a month is left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments, i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes, from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips, except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
Season 5
Episode 4 (101) "Detour" (Written by Frank Spotnitz, Directed by Brett Dowler)
On the way to an FBI convention, Mulder and Scully take a trip through the woods, where an ancient monster lurks.
Episode 9 (106) "Schizogeny" (Written by Jessica Scott & Mike Wollaeger, Directed by Ralph Hemecker)
When a teenager is suspected of murdering his father, Mulder and Scully become convinced that a greater evil may be lurking in the community.
Episode 15 (112) "Travelers" (Written by John Shiban & Frank Spotnitz, Directed by William Graham)
In 1990, a bizarre murder leads young agent Fox Mulder to question a former FBI Agent who investigated one of the first X-Files dating back to the 1950s - a case which may have involved Mulder’s father.
Episode 16 (113) "Mind's Eye" (Written by Tim Minear, Directed by Kim Manners)
Agents Mulder and Scully investigate a murder that seems to have been committed by a blind woman, but Mulder suspects that her involvement is not what it seems.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 4
Less than a month is left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments,i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes,from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips,except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
Season 4
Episode 6 (079) "Sanguinarium" (Written by Vivian Mayhew and Valerie Mayhew, Directed by Kim Manners)
Bizarre murders in a hospital’s plastic surgery unit lead Mulder and Scully to suspect a supernatural force may be responsible.
Episode 7 (080) "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man" (Written by Glen Morgan & James Wong(uncredited), Directed by James Wong & Glen Morgan(uncredited))
Taking a page from the Superman comic “Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography,” this episode details the previous exploits of the Cigarette Smoking Man. Mulder, Scully and Byers meet with Frohike, where he details what may be Cancerman’s real life.
Episode 16 (089) "Unrequited" (Written by Howard Gordon & Chris Carter,Directed by Michael Lange)
The mysterious assassination of a high-ranking military official has Mulder and Scully racing against the clock to stop a seemingly unstoppable - and invisible - assassin.
Episode 19 (092) "Synchrony" (Written by Howard Gordon & David Greenwalt, Directed by Jim Charleston)
Mulder and Scully investigate a murder for which the suspect presents an incredible alibi - that the death was foretold by an old man able to see into the future.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 3
A month is left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments,i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes, from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips, except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
Season 3
Episode 2 (51) "Paper Clip" (Written by Chris Carter, Directed by Rob Bowman)
Mulder and Scully search for answers regarding the old photograph with his father and other unnamed men. Their search takes them to the abandoned Strughold Mining Facility where they uncover a dangerous secret.
Episode 9 (58) "Nisei" (Written by Chris Carter, Howard Gordon & Frank Spotnitz Directed by David Nutter)
A mail order videotape of an alien autopsy blossoms into a much more complicated investigation when Mulder and Scully find the distributor of the tape murdered in his own home apparently by a high-ranking Japanese diplomat. While Mulder’s search for the video leads him to a train car, Scully investigates a Mutual UFO Network group and discovers several women who claim to know her.
Episode 10 (59) "731" (Written by Frank Spotnitz, Directed by Rob Bowman)
Scully takes X’s advice to heart and investigates more into the implant she removed from her neck. Mulder, having ignored the advice given him, finds himself trapped on the train with a Japanese scientist and the man sent to kill him.
Episode 12 (61) "War of the Coprophages" (Written by Darin Morgan, Directed by Kim Manners)
A small town is plagued by deaths in which the bodies are found covered in cockroaches. Working from home, Scully has scientific explanations for all of them but Mulder - at the crime scene with an attractive bug expert - suspects the insects may not be organic, or earthly.
Episode 17 (66) "Pusher" (Written by Vince Gilligan, Directed by Rob Bowman)
Agents Mulder and Scully’s assistance is requested for a case involving a man seemingly capable of bending people to his will. The suspect uses his mysterious abilities to manipulate Agent Mulder into a dangerous end game.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 2
Almost a month is left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments,i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes,from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips,except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
Season 2
Episode 4 "Sleepless" (Written by Howard Gordon, Directed by Rob Bowman)
An audio cassette hidden in his morning paper brings Mulder to request the case of a scientist’s death consistent with burning, despite the lack of any evidence of any flames or burns. He is given his request...along with a new partner, Agent Alex Krycek.
Opening scene
Episode 6 "Ascension" (Written by Paul Brown,Directed by Michael Lange)
Discovering that Duane Barry abducted Scully, Mulder and Krycek set out to locate her and find themselves at Skyland Mountain retreat, where alliances are revealed, and Scully’s life is threatened after being kidnapped.
Episode 12 "Aubrey" (Written by Sara Charno,Directed by Rob Bowman)
The body of an old FBI agent is unearthed in Aubrey, Missouri. A serial killer is also on the loose in Aubrey. Mulder and Scully must determine the killer’s identity with Lt. Tillman.
Episode 17 "End Game" (Written by Frank Spotnitz,Directed by Rob Bowman)
Reeling from the reunion with his sister, Mulder is thrown into a quandary when Scully is taken captive by the bounty hunter. However, when a trap set for him goes awry, the agents must head far north in order to attempt to unravel the mystery.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
X-Files Favorite Episodes: Season 1
Almost a month is left before the release of the long awaited sequel X-Files:I Want To Believe.In order to remember some of the show's best moments,i'll post each week my favorite X-Files episodes,from season one to season nine.Each post will have plot summaries and videos (trailers and clips,except from some season 1-2 episodes).The truth is still out there!
Mulder and Scully return on July 25.
Season 1
Episode 2 “Deep Throat” (Written by Chris Carter, Directed by Daniel Sackheim)
Mulder & Scully travel to Idaho in order to investigate the disappearance of a military test pilot. They observe unusual aircraft activity, prompting Mulder to proclaim the existence of a government conspiracy. Mulder sneaks onto the military base and is spotlighted by one of the craft, but is captured by soldiers and has his memory erased before he is released.
Trailer
Episode 12 "Fire" (Written by Chris Carter, Directed by Larry Shaw)
Mulder investigates the deaths of British dignitaries at the behest of an old Oxford girlfriend. Bob/Cecil L’Ively is a pyrokinetic, and he wants Sir Malcolm Marsden’s wife. Cecil attempts to kill Marsden, with his ability to make fire come out of his hands, but Mulder stops him.
Trailer
Episode 17 "E.B.E" (Written by Glen Morgan & James Wong, Directed by William Graham)
Mulder and Scully receive information from Deep Throat about a UFO that was shot down over Iraq and has been secretly transported to the US. However, Deep Throat then intentionally misleads the agents to prevent them from discovering the truth.
Episode 20 "Darkness Falls" (Written by Chris Carter, Directed by Joe Napolitano)
Mulder and Scully travel to the remote Washington State National Forest when an entire group of loggers goes missing.
Opening scene
Episode 24 "The Erlenmeyer Flask" (Written by Chris Carter, Directed by R.W. Goodwin)
A seemingly unrelated car chase leads Mulder and Scully to a scientific lab encompassing a secret which could provide proof of a government conspiracy. However, individuals involved with the scientific experiment are being murdered, and the two agents must ensure their own safety. The two come across a flask containing strange DNA particles. All living things are built up of a string of four different DNA cells, but this flask contains both a fifth and a sixth. Scully and Mulder believe that this could be firm evidence of extra-terrestrial life forms. Scully also finds a small head sized alien - which changes her beliefs completely. At the end of this episode, the X-Files project is aborted.
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